Beer drinkers?

[lstbred]

I had Sierra Nevada "Hoptimum" holy shit it was bad! 10% and100 on the bitter scale!

[alexISthrowed]

I had Sierra Nevada "Hoptimum" holy shit it was bad! 10% and100 on the bitter scale!

Never tried it, with a name like that I'm guessing it was heavily hopped. I'm not usually a fan of overly hopped beers.

[DCI]

Ye, it's the nicest beer I have ever tasted I love it but it will make it known to you in the morning that you had some.

[numero_uno]

TR, besides beer tastes like shit in a plastic cup. And there's no head at all. A good beer is poured in to a frosty glass with just the right amount of head on it. The beer presentation is supposed to scream to the consumer "DRINK ME!!!!"

A plastic cup of beer on a hot summer day at the baseball game does scream "DRINK ME!" because you know it will be piss warm in a mater of minutes if you don't

[Times Roman]

Never tried it, with a name like that I'm guessing it was heavily hopped. I'm not usually a fan of overly hopped beers.

two ways to hop

bitters
aramotics

i prefer if generously hopped to be on the aromatics side....

[DCI]

Had, fullers ESB last night, some Magic Hat and the best thing ever Innis and Gunn ohh dear lord yummy

[Times Roman]

Had, fullers ESB last night, some Magic Hat and the best thing ever Innis and Gunn ohh dear lord yummy

where do you live?

and where did you go?

[alexISthrowed]

two ways to hop

bitters
aramotics

i prefer if generously hopped to be on the aromatics side....

I didn't know this, I always figured beers with a lot of hops were bitter. Good to know.

[DCI]

where do you live?

and where did you go?

I'm from Ireland man, there's a pub that does literally over 500 beers in there so was sampling a lot of them lol.

[Times Roman]

I didn't know this, I always figured beers with a lot of hops were bitter. Good to know.

there is a huge variety of hops, some better suited for aromatics, others better suited for bitters, and others even both ways.

but, to get a bitter, you toss the hops in early while you are still cooking the wort. It will drive the oils out and infuse with the rest of the batch.

with aromatics, you toss in the wort after it's been cooked, but right before you infuse with pure yeast (I put in when i take off the fire and it begins the cooling process). this preserves the fragile aromatic molecules that come from the hop, and gives beer that good nose quality.

now it's trivia ttime.

did you know that hops and cannibas are kissing cousins?
in fact, the alkeloids in marijuana are also found in hops.
this means that a heavily hopped beer will give a different buzz than a lightly hopped beer.
(additionally, if you didn't cough yer damn head off, if you were to smoke hops, you would get a thc high)

this also means, that if you were of a mind to do so, you could substitute and use cannibas instead of hops.
(how THAT would be an expensive beer!)

additionally, you can buy hops pillows. the claim is that it provides a deeper sounder sleep.

[DCI]

I was thinking that, some beers smell a weedy when you have a sniff off them.

[lstbred]

Just got back from brewfest, Holy Crap! I drank enough beer for 12 and ate like a starving fat kid.....I'm sooooo bloated lol had some really good brews, some crap. Had this weird concocrion, about 1/4 cranberry juice topped off with an oatmeal stout, different, ok, but different.